Question 1

Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?

Accepted Answer

A)  anandavardhana
B)  rajashekhara
C)  abhinavagupta
D)  kuntaka D

Question 2

Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in the divisions of a tragedy when staged?

Accepted Answer

A)  parode
B)  episode
C)  exode
D)  stasimon B

Question 3

Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?

Accepted Answer

A)  abhinavagupta
B)  anandavardhana
C)  kshemendra
D)  bhoja A

Question 4

Who wrote the essay "The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks"?

Accepted Answer

A)  r.s.crane
B)  elder olson
C)  robert penn warren
D)  richard mckeon

Question 5

Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression?

Accepted Answer

A)  alamkara
B)  dhwani
C)  kavya
D)  aswad

Question 6

Who considers Hard Times "a moral fable" with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?

Accepted Answer

A)  thomas hardy
B)  t.s.eliot
C)  f.r.leavis
D)  charles dickens

Question 7

Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics?

Accepted Answer

A)  kalidasa
B)  jagannatha
C)  bharatamuni
D)  purandaradasa

Question 8

Who mentions: "Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as a nothing".

Accepted Answer

A)  william wordsworth
B)  lord byron
C)  edmund spenser
D)  robert herrick

Question 9

Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serve as the effective mythical explanation for their State/

Accepted Answer

A)  first
B)  fourth
C)  second
D)  third

Question 10

What is the source of dhwani theory?

Accepted Answer

A)  sphota theory
B)  theory of rasa
C)  rasadhwani
D)  lochana

Question 11

Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to the manner of its imitation?

Accepted Answer

A)  poetry
B)  drama
C)  prose
D)  fiction

Question 12

Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?

Accepted Answer

A)  plato
B)  socrates
C)  aristotle
D)  longinus

Question 13

Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?

Accepted Answer

A)  hero
B)  antagonist
C)  chorus
D)  family

Question 14

Who mentions "vakyam rasatmakam kavyam", which means any composition which gives tasteful pleasure is poetry?

Accepted Answer

A)  kshemendra
B)  bhattalolatta
C)  mammata
D)  jagannatha

Question 15

What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry?

Accepted Answer

A)  chitrakavya
B)  chitra
C)  shloka
D)  kavya

Question 16

Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?

Accepted Answer

A)  thomas wilson
B)  thomas hardy
C)  f.r.leavis
D)  t.s.eliot

Question 17

Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?

Accepted Answer

A)  upacharavakrata
B)  vakrata
C)  nirupana
D)  lakshana

Question 18

Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner?

Accepted Answer

A)  mammata
B)  shankuka
C)  patanjali
D)  none of these

Question 19

Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges between Plato and his teacher Socrates.

Accepted Answer

A)  protogoras
B)  gorgias
C)  symposium
D)  dialogues

Question 20

To whom does Longinus write "On the Sublime", which is in the form of letters?

Accepted Answer

A)  aristotle
B)  cecilius
C)  postumius terentianus
D)  plato

Exam 6: Aesthetics and Literary Criticism From Aristotle to Indian Theory